Why is [AssemblyInitialize] and [AssemblyCleanup] being called twice in same test project assembly?

Question

I thought the whole purpose of these attributes was to run them only once per assembly. I have a simple class as follows:

[TestClass]
public class AssemblyIntegr         


        

Answer 1

Well, this answer is a bazillion years late based on the original problem date but...

I discovered if the test agent (QTAgent32.exe) crashes or dies before the complete sequence finishes, then AssemblyInitialize (and maybe ClassInitialize and TestInitialize) would be called again. For example, put this in your [AssemblyCleanup] function and you'll see the behavior occur:

Process p = AutotestShared.RunProcess("cmd", "/c taskkill /t /f /im QTAgent32.exe", true);
p.WaitForExit();

So the moral of this story is: Check your cleanup functions to see if there are any crashes / corruption. Failures during cleanup don't show in the test report because the pass/fail assertions are already complete. But the problems it causes may show up in other ways.